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O2 is going to bring together Sony PlayStation and Xeria Z1 from Friday 29th November 2013. It will be available across 65 stores in the UK.Both new and existing customers can avail this facility and they will have to pay a refreshed tariff plan. And they will be paying no financial penalty. The range of its price will be from 52 pounds to 89.90 pounds. It will come up with games like Killzone, Shadow Fall and there’s a free 12 month free accessibility.

While revealing valuable information related to the business, O2 today says that only 177 outlets of its total 446 are now franchise owned.

Just a year ago, O2 announced that it would include another 82 franchise outlets in order increase the number of its outlets to 200. The CEO of O2 says that 52 of this 82 have been already franchised and the number is likely to go up by the end of this year.

In Helsinki, Nokia shareholders hold a talk and agree to sale the company’s device and service unit to Microsoft. Microsoft has agreed to pay $7.36 billion for purchasing this unit. This acquisition of property was announced in September.Until the transaction is completed, Nokia authority will play the role of caretaker and most probably the transaction is come to a close by the Q1 of 2014.

iPad mini hits the online store, the price of this piece is 319 pound for 16GB Wi-Fi only model. The other one for 64GB WI-Fi and Cellular model will cost 659 ponds. More is in the pipeline and are likely to be released later this month.

This Apple device with Retina display is the latest tablet addition. The Wi-Fi only model costs £319 for 16GB of memory, £399 for 32GB, £479 for 64GB and £559 for 128GB. The Wi-Fi + Cellular cost an additional £100 for each model. It was supposed to be released by October 22. But, it took time.

Ericsson
reports that predictions show 60 per cent of subscription will come through
smart phones.

According to
the latest Ericsson Mobile Report, mobile subscription is likely to go up and
will reach 9.3 billion by 2019. They maintained that total mobile subscription
currently is 6.6 billion. They added that 60 per cent of these connections are
for smartphones. Currently, around 25-30 percent are meant for smart phones. Ericsson
reports says that by 2019 Ericsson research will reach 60 per cent growth and
3G connection will reach almost 90 percent.